hey thanks heaps for the tip! i was wondering how the heck i was supposed to do it! i really want to dual boot, i only have windows because occasionally i get work as a Flash designer, cant really afford to lose my bread and butter yet :-(.... Dave Griffiths wrote: > On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 23:31:14 +0100 > iriXx <m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>other issue i'm wondering about is installing linux alongside windows >>(barf!) xp... ughh... i swore i'd never use XP but its come pre >>installed. borg edition, yuck.... but i need it for work. >>so i'm thinking maybe with xp being so difficult, running lnx4win >>might be an idea, but would this be more demanding on system >>resources? i'd like to partition the drive but im not sure how to go >>about this on XP... yuk yuk yuk... win2k was easy enough though.... >>*sigh*.... > > > I managed to do this on my laptop - I have XP and linux working dual > boot (although I haven't booted XP in months - I just keep it cos I had > to pay for it... ) > The only difficulty is that you have to get a recent version of > partition magic (8?) to resize the xp ntfs partition - it's a different > version to win2k. > > I managed it Ok anyway, and I'm usually hopeless with that kind of > thing... > > dave > > > -- |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ HTTP 503: Too Busy |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL .::. www.iriXx.org .::. www.copyleftmedia.org.uk .::. gnupg key ID: AEB7A31E